.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent lapse in safety: just how did a sniper mount an unsafe roof along with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- conserved through a fortunate convert of the crown an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.